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Agency 180 Amsterdam celebrates their 10th year of representing their founding client, Adidas, with this remarkable video history that’s so fresh in its mix of retro claymation/stop-motion animation and spliced-in videos. I’ve always had a soft spot for Adidas, as it was the first athletic shoes I can recall owning. This video hits the right mix of nostalgia and effective branding to really make you feel like it’s a brand worth buying into, but more than that, it’s just a pleasure to watch with its perfectly relaxed pace, so contrary to the frenetic bombardments we’re used to when it comes to how athletic shoe brands market themselves. Via the slick coolhunters of Yatzer. For more info on this particular video, go to yatzer’s blog.

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A wonderful stop-motion animation gothic tale for the band ASP.
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Stop-motion animation how-to…

‘My Paper Mind’, created by Javan Ivey, is an animation technique he calls ’stratastencil’. Is a stop motion animation made out of numerous layers of cardboard cut outs. Javan Ivey is a graduate student from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Music video for Olivia Broadfield using stop motion animation created by Kurt Nishimura.

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After kicking around his native Canada as a singer-songwriter for five years, Jeremy Fisher placed a homemade video for his poppy melancholy track “Cigarette” on YouTube a year ago. Within three months, more than 2 million music fans viewed the film, which features dramatic stop-motion animation.

“What was great about the video is that it was my personal art project,” says Fisher, who performs Saturday at Local 506 in Chapel Hill.

“I didn’t have to have a marketing meeting. It was done just for fun, and I think that comes across and [is] why it did so well. I wasn’t following a particular trend. I was just following what was on my mind.”

The tune was simply the soundtrack, but it helped 31-year-old Fisher, who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, establish himself as a musician in America.

The Miraculous Pear Tree is a stop-motion animation, shot entirely in high-defenition. Made by Jeroen Zijlstra and produced and facilitated by Raspberry Animation. It tells the Tibetan fairytale of a Tibetan monk who encounters a less than dignified salesman. After finding out about the salesman and his intentions, he teaches him a lesson.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) presents a stunning, stop-motion animated film that takes the viewer on an exhilarating existential journey. The film introduces groundbreaking visual techniques and is supported by a haunting and original score. Painstaking care and craftsmanship in form and detail bring to life a fully imagined, tactile world unlike any you have seen. Details of the film can be found at the NFB web site.

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A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

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